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Les Demoiselles
d'Avignon:
Conserving a Modern Masterpiece
The Museum of Modern Art undertook a major
project to clean and restore Pablo Picasso's masterpiece,
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907). Visit the project
site to learn about the history of the painting, progress
reports, and read the questions that visitors submitted to the conservators.
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Artists of Brücke:
Themes in German Expressionist Prints
This site is the Museum’s first
exhibition created exclusively for the web and showcases its
unparalleled collection of German Expressionist prints and
illustrated books. The Brücke group, formed in 1905 in
Dresden by four revolutionary architectural students including
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Erich Heckel, strove to achieve
a new synthesis between art and life, bringing meaning back
to what they considered the superficial bourgeois existence
of German life under Kaiser Wilhelm II. They organized exhibitions
and publicized their own work by issuing annual portfolios
of prints. Printmaking, and the woodcut in particular, became
one of their most important modes of expression. This site
presents over 110 prints arranged into thematic groupings
to highlight the issues and motifs central to this seminal
movement in the history of modern prints.
Flash
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What is a Print?
Artists have used printmaking to create
some of their most profound and compelling works of art, yet
the basic printmaking techniques remain a mystery to most
people. This interactive project provides animated demonstrations
of the four main printmaking processes—woodcut, etching,
lithography, and screenprint. It also includes images of more
than forty prints from the Museum's collection in order to
demonstrate the range of effects that are associated with
each technique.
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TimeStream
The moving image has been transformed
from medium to medium throughout its history; now it has coopted
the hard drive. In this Web site specially commissioned by
the Museum, Tony Oursler, an artist known for constructing
phantasmagorical video tales, mixes intricate research with
idiosyncratic information. The timeline tracks the evolution
of virtual technologies and their relationship to what Oursler
calls the spirit world. The project is on in the Museum's
Café/Etc. through May 2001.
Shockwave
and Flash
plug-ins required.
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16 Objects,
Ready or Not
6 Objects, Ready or Not by artist
Michael Craig-Martin was commissioned and co-produced by The
Museum of Modern Art. It was created in conjunction with the
ModernStarts: Things exhibition on from November
21, 1999 to March 14, 2000. This project showcases an array
of objects created by the artist and allows users to interact
with the piece by setting the animated objects against brilliant
hues. The online artist project may also be ed locally
as a screensaver.
Shockwave
and Flash
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dot.jp
In a country famous for innovative applications
of technology, Japanese media artists are using new digital
tools in intriguing ways. Barbara London, Associate Curator,
Department of Film and Video, travels in Japan to look at
the sun rising on digital art. During her journey, London
keeps a daily online diary of her encounters with Japanese
media artists and their work. Her diary includes video clips
and photos.
Flash
and RealPlayer
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Art Safari online
This interactive program for adults and
children highlights four modern artworks from the Museum's
collection that feature animals. For each work a series of
questions guides children to write about what they see in
the art. Online artmaking activities are also available. Examples
of children's art and writing, selected by MoMA's Department
of Education, are accessible in the Children's Art Display
section.
Users who have the Shockwave
plug-in will hear voice-over audio clips.
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Conversations with Contemporary
Artists
This subsite offers online highlights from
MoMA's public program Conversations with Contemporary Artists,
in which invited artists give informal talks in the Museum
galleries. Three artists featured in the subsite, Coco Fusco,
Gary Simmons, and Kara Walker, discuss their art as well as
works from the Museum's collection. Audio clips, transcripts,
artists' resumes, and images are included.
Audio playback requires the Shockwave
plug-in.
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Fred Wilson:
Road to Victory
This online project was created in conjunction
with the exhibition The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect
(March 14-June 1, 1999). Fred Wilson's Road to Victory
explores The Museum of Modern Art's memory of itself by mining
the institution's archives. As in his previous works, Wilson
uses juxtaposition and sequencing of texts and images to construct
different narratives out of a given historical archive, thereby
exploring topics such as inclusion, exclusion, and the notions
of the beautiful and the exotic. This site presents over sixty
documentary images showing staff, visitors, furniture, and
installation s of past exhibitions, along with several
texts, including press releases, radio transcripts, lists
of exhibition, and other archival materials.
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InterNyet: A Video Curator's
Dipatches from Russia and Ukraine
InterNyet presents a series of daily
dispatches from July 1 to August 5, 1998, by video curator
Barbara London. Produced as a companion to Stir-Fry,
this online project gives exposure to contemporary art evolving
in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Odessa, and Kiev. The site includes
stills, video and audio clips, text about innovative artists,
and commentary from the curator and other members of the art
world in Russia and Ukraine.
RealPlayer
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Robert Cumming: Academic
Interactive Exercise
Cumming's fascination with perceptual games
is illustrated by this virtual transformation of his 1975
photographic diptych, Academic Shading Exercise. The
changes that occur when three-dimensional objects are rendered
in two dimensions, the visual inversion of images from negative
to positive, and puns of all varieties form the humor and
intelligence of Cumming's photography. This project was created
in conjunction with the exhibition The Clutter of Happenstance:
Photographs by Robert Cumming, on at MoMA March 19-July
5, 1998.
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We regret Time Capusule
is no longer available online.
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Time Capsule
Time Capsule marks the 10th International
World AIDS Day and was organized by the Museum of Modern Art's
Department of Education, visual AIDS, Creative Time, and London
based ArtAIDS. This project documents its participant's thoughts
on AIDS and HIV. These s were submitted to the Museum's
Education Center on December 1st and 2nd, 1997. Messages and
images have also been collected via the site's online form
and were sealed in the Time Capsule January 30, 1998. Beginning
on that day, one contributor's account, chosen at random,
will go online each day until December 1, 2002, when the contents
of the site will be "opened" and available for ing
on the Internet.
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Stir-Fry:
A Video Curator's Dispatches from China
Created in collaboration with äda 'web,
Stir-Fry: A Video Curator's Dispatches from China is
an innovative online project that features daily reports from
the Middle Kingdom. From September 2 to September 30, 1997,
Barbara London, Associate Curator, Department of Film and
Video, traveled across China to Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou,
and Guangzhou, meeting with media artists and seeing their
work. Her dispatches to this site chronicle her experiences
in these cities and include written journal entries, photographs,
and audio and video inters conducted during studio visits
and other encounters with members of the media art scene.
Some of the dispatches
incorporate RealAudio
and RealVideo.
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Peter Halley:
Exploding Cell
Peter Halley created this interactive project
in conjunction with the exhibition, New Concepts in Printmaking
1: Peter Halley, on at the Museum from September
18, 1997 through February 8, 1998. It has been programmed
using digital files, now in the Museum's collection, that
Halley initially produced to generate images for the wallpaper
included in the exhibition. To participate in the Web project,
visitors select one of Halley's nine images then choose colors
to illuminate areas of the image and print and sign the finished
composition. The resulting artwork, which also bears Halley's
signature, will be a collaboration between the visitor and
Halley.
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We regret Technology
in the 1990s is no longer available online.
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Technology
in the 90s
The series Technology in the 90s, which
began in 1992, is an ongoing program of symposia that explore
the promise and impact of new technologies on contemporary
culture. Presenters include artists working internationally
on the cutting edge of technology. This site, produced in
collaboration with äda'web, contains an introduction
by Barbara London, Associate Curator, Department of Film and
Video, presentations by artists, and a series of online message
boards [now closed] that stimulate and encourage the flow
of ideas and opinions about the improvements in technology
that are transforming the art world.
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General
Idea
General Idea, the Toronto-based artist group
formed in 1968, designed this project in association with
The Museum of Modern Art, äda'web, and ArtAIDS. It coincided
with the exhibition Projects: General Idea, on
at the Museum from November 28, 1996 through January 7, 1997.
The Web project includes on-line animation and a free downloadable
screen saver, based on a digital version of General Idea's
AIDS logo, itself a transformation of Robert Indiana's famous
LOVE painting of 1967.
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